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45-2-81
Section 45-2-81 Investigators; presence of bailiffs and employees at grand jury deliberations.
(a) The district attorney's office in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit is hereby authorized
to employ such investigators as it deems necessary from time to time. (b) All court bailiffs
and employees of the district attorney's office in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit shall
be entitled to be present during sessions of the grand jury except when the jury is deliberating.
(Act 84-500, p. 1119, §§1, 2.)...
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12-16-59
Section 12-16-59 Drawings from master jury box; preparation and contents of juror qualification
forms; completion of qualification forms by prospective jurors; misrepresentation of material
facts on qualification forms. (a) From time to time and in a manner prescribed by the circuit
court, the jury commission shall publicly draw at random from the master jury box the names
or identifying numbers of as many prospective jurors as the court orders. Neither the names
drawn nor any list thereof shall be disclosed to any person other than pursuant to this article
or specific order of the court. The jury commission shall mail to every prospective juror
whose name is drawn from the master jury box a juror qualification form accompanied by instructions
to fill out and return the form to the jury commission within 10 days after its receipt. (b)
The juror qualification form shall be prepared by the Supreme Court of Alabama and shall elicit
the name, age and address of the prospective juror, and...
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12-15-204
Section 12-15-204 Acts for which person who has attained age 16 shall be charged, arrested,
and tried as adult; removal of person from jurisdiction of juvenile court. (a) Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, any person who has attained the age of 16 years at the time of
the conduct charged and who is charged with the commission of any act or conduct, which if
committed by an adult would constitute any of the following, shall not be subject to the jurisdiction
of juvenile court but shall be charged, arrested, and tried as an adult: (1) A capital offense.
(2) A Class A felony. (3) A felony which has as an element thereof the use of a deadly weapon.
(4) A felony which has as an element thereof the causing of death or serious physical injury.
(5) A felony which has as an element thereof the use of a dangerous instrument against any
person who is one of the following: a. A law enforcement officer or official. b. A correctional
officer or official. c. A parole or probation officer or...
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12-16-221
Section 12-16-221 Disclosures in aid of law enforcement investigations and in public interest.
A district attorney or other prosecutor may, in his or her discretion, disclose evidence taken
within or before the grand juries of such circuit to law enforcement officers for the purpose
of bona fide investigations into violations of criminal law. A district attorney or a circuit
judge, in the public interest, may disclose the date, time and place that a particular case
will be or was presented to a grand jury, or that a particular matter or case was continued
by a grand jury and to what date, if any, or that a no bill or an indictment was returned
thereon, or that a particular defendant was otherwise exonerated or falsely accused. (Acts
1979, No. 79-457, p. 745, §8.)...
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13A-10-120
Section 13A-10-120 Definitions. (a) The definitions in Sections 13A-10-1, 13A-10-60 and 13A-10-100
are applicable in this article unless the context otherwise requires. (b) The following definitions
are also applicable in this article: (1) JUROR. Any person who is a member of any jury, including
a grand jury, impaneled by any court of this state or by any public servant authorized by
law to impanel a jury. The term juror also includes any person who has been summoned or whose
name has been drawn to attend as a prospective juror. (2) TESTIMONY. Such term includes oral
or written statements, documents or any other material that may be offered as evidence in
an official proceeding. (Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5001.)...
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37-8-4
Section 37-8-4 Requiring witnesses to testify before grand jury. Witnesses before the grand
jury, summoned to give evidence of any violation of this title, may be required to answer
generally as to any such offense within their knowledge committed within 12 months next preceding,
without being specially interrogated as to any particular offense, but no witness shall be
prosecuted for any offense as to which he testifies before the grand jury, and any member
of the grand jury or district attorney may be a witness to prove this fact. (Code 1907, §7693;
Code 1923, §5374; Code 1940, T. 48, §425.)...
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45-20-82.20
Section 45-20-82.20 Clerk-secretary. (a) The District Attorney of the Twenty-second Judicial
Circuit is authorized to provide a clerk-secretary to attend all grand jury sessions in the
circuit at the request of the grand juries. The clerk-secretary shall perform such clerical
and secretarial duties as the grand juries and district attorney may prescribe and shall transcribe
the testimony and other matters being brought before the grand jury. (b) Either the secretary,
administrative assistant, or trial coordinator in the district attorney's office shall be
designated as the clerk-secretary by the district attorney. When directed by the district
attorney for such circuit, the clerk-secretary shall attend in person, except as otherwise
provided, the sessions of each grand jury held in such circuit and in every manner or proceeding
before such grand jury take stenographic notes of the oral testimony and proceedings and note
the order in which all documentary evidence is introduced. (c)...
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12-16-197
Section 12-16-197 Issuance of subpoenas for witnesses for grand jury generally; proceedings
upon failure of witnesses summoned to attend. The district attorney, the foreman of the grand
jury or the clerk of the court, on the application of the grand jury, must issue subpoenas
for any witnesses whom they may require to give evidence before them, and if witnesses so
summoned fail to attend, the subpoenas must be returned to the court, with the default thereon
endorsed, signed by the foreman, and the same proceedings may thereupon be had against them
as against defaulting witnesses, the endorsement of the foreman being presumptive evidence
of the default. (Code 1852, §551; Code 1867, §4101; Code 1876, §4774; Code 1886, §4347;
Code 1896, §5033; Code 1907, §7294; Code 1923, §8676; Code 1940, T. 30, §83.)...
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28-4-136
Section 28-4-136 Penalties for violations of provisions of article by railroad companies, express
companies, etc.; duties of district attorney in cases of grand jury indictments. (a) Any railroad
company, express company or other carrier or any person or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this article or failing to comply with any requirements thereof shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00, to which,
at the discretion of the court, may be added imprisonment in the county jail or confinement
at hard labor for the county for not more than six months for the first conviction. On the
second and every subsequent conviction of a violation of any provisions of this article, the
offense shall, in addition to a fine within the limitations above named, be punishable by
imprisonment in the county jail or at hard labor for the county for not less than three nor
more than six months, to be imposed by the court. (b) It shall...
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15-4-1
Section 15-4-1 Duty of coroner to take sworn statement on death; direction to summon jury;
service, compensation, and oath of jurors. (a) When a coroner has been informed that a person
has been killed or suddenly died under such circumstances as to afford a reasonable ground
for belief that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means, he
must forthwith make inquiry of the facts and circumstances of such death by taking the sworn
statement in writing of the witnesses having personal knowledge thereof and submit the same
to a judge of a court of record or a district attorney. (b) If, upon such preliminary inquiry,
the judge or district attorney is satisfied from the evidence that there is reasonable ground
for believing that such death has been occasioned by the act of another by unlawful means,
he must direct the coroner to forthwith summon a jury of six qualified jurors of the county
to appear before him forthwith at a specified place and inquire into the...
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